The segment on Koala Kong reminded me just how forgettable of a character he is, but what I didn't realise until you mentioned it was how much and how easily Tiny Tiger replaced him.

What makes the Uka Uka fight even more embarrassing is that the secret ending of N Tranced that you get by beating N Tropy is a cliffhanger that implied Uka Uka would become the next portable game's main antagonist.

Fun Fact: Alpha Builds of Crash Bash have the Komodo Bros boss fight with placeholder images of, hilariously enough, Homer and Bart Simpson for their portraits.

Calling it now, the #1 worst boss is the CEO of Activision

Fun fact! If you unlock all the levels using the debug code in demos of crash bash you can fight the komodo bros before they got their own unique health bar icons. Instead above their health will be Home and Bart Simpson as place holders.

What's funny about Crash Purple's Spyro fight is that the playstyle within it is only in that particular game this SINGLE time outside of a multiplayer option that most wouldn't bother with. Spyro Orange has several minigames of this "molotov cocktail bridge" type, but Crash Purple just has this one. And its even more underwhelming considering how braindead easy it is. Also I just finished Crash 2 and agree that Cortex is a bad fight. I actually failed the first few times against him but only because the jetpack is just something I cannot get a grip on.

You don’t necessarily need to beat Velo 4 times. If you just ignore fighting him until you get everything, then you only need to the one time. Did so on my playthrough, and beat him my first try since he doesn’t use shortcuts and his missiles are out of reach. I also just remembered that he throws at least his bombs in designated spots of the track, (usually before one of the portals.) and doesn’t throw them most other times. I can’t remember if the missiles work like that too, but if you use the shortcuts, throw items backwards in the straight parts of the track near boxes, as he will almost always hit it since he stays in the middle, and keep items until close to boxes to be safe, it should at least makes things a little easier

I really wanted all the playable characters to go up against the two Tropy's in Crash 4 as the final boss (and maybe save the second Cortex boss for Crash 5). It would've given Tawna, Dingodile, and Cortex more to do than just be Timeline characters.

Velo: Enjoy your lead. You won't have it for long. He wasn't bluffing. I get that Velo is difficult because he's the final boss but the devs took it too far.

I never beat Nitro Kart solely because of that Velo race. It's WAY too brutal even for the final boss. And having to beat him 4 times just to unlock stupid gremlin Velo? Yeah, I think I'm just gonna stick with Nitro Fueled. XD

Ben is such a god at Crash Boom Bang, the bosses and the boards play themselves for him and he still wins.

The only real hard part about the Number 8 fight is trying not to laugh when Uka Uka asks "I don't whether to *kiss* you or *KILL* you?" and then Crash puckers up hoping for a kiss

If Koala Kong, The Komodo Bros, along with Papu Papu ever makes a grand comeabck In Crash Bandicoot 5; then they might get a chance to have some new mechanics and gimmicks that aren't rehashes to there previous fights. I'm still looking at you N. Brio of Crash Bandicoot 4: It's about Time!

If we're just talking the Naughty Dog games, the entire list would be taken up by the first two games.

I wonder if we'll get an idea from QG's worst Castlevania Bosses list where he faked out putting Hideki Hayakawa on that with a fake out of Bobby Kottick being number 1 here (Well I'm glad you didn't go for THAT bit of extremely low hanging fruit. Also now I can't help but imagine Lex Lang's Cortex saying to Luigi "HA! You can win simple minigames by doing absolutely nothing. Child's play. One time I won an entire match by doing absolutely nothing")

I love how Crash's ducking animation in N. Tranced is just him doing the "Boi!" pose; ya know...inhale with hands raised towards the mouth, then bring 'em down with the exhale and exclaiming, "Boi!" They knew what they did here. XD Also, in regards to the Crash 2 Cortex fight, I feel like, though annoying given the relative new introduction of the jetpac by that point, dying to the asteroids and mines would have increased the challenge factor and made the fight at least somewhat decent; maybe they just didn't want the boss fight to remind people of Koala Kong from the first game so that's why they didn't make the "spin asteroids in to Cortex to win" the answer? If that IS the case, that's kinda silly. Plus, yeah, he's holding a ray gun, why doesn't he fire it off every so often, being one of 3 possible ways to die? Maybe Naughty Dog had that programmed in to his A.I., but a coding error/typo caused him to never use it? I dunno, that's the best guess I can make. What do you think?

You ever notice how so many Crash bosses are either his size or have, like, really tiny legs and massive torsos?

A bit earlier than expected... a surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one! From the thumbnail alone, we can expect to see Koala Kong from Crash 1, Cortex from Crash 2, and the Komodo Bros from Crash Bash. Aside from those three bosses, I think the only other boss I can expect from this list is the N. Tropys from Crash 4.

8:07 Oh my god, YES! I was so excited to play this "group" boss fight and see all the characters work together, especially since we didn't get a whole lot of actual story from the side character levels. Then we got... that, and the only thing they did together as a group was get space macdonalds. *deep sigh* (Cute avatar btw!)

The 2nd NGin fight and Trophy + Brio fight from Twinsanity could qualify for this list cause they're very mindlessly easy.

You technically (and I stress, TECHNICALLY) only need to beat number 3 twice if you go for all the relics first.

Buff cortex isn’t real it can’t hurt you Buff cortex:

About Number 3’s ending, you actually do get to use the Titan Velo in Crash Nitro Kart. The big catch is simple. GBA only. You know, the same version that lets you race with Spyro the Dragon?

You know, given how you do see it teased in places (and the overall infamy of the games) I'm surprised no boss from either Titans game are here.

I absolutely agree with N.Trophy from N.Tranced. It’s the definition of padding and I’m going to be honest, I didn’t even know the second phase also has a set pattern (Embarrassingly). Seriously, how did N.Trance get a better boss fight than his own master is beyond me.

10:50 Well, the Big Bad Fox stage from Crash Bash was pretty good at least. It's strange because the Komodo Brothers are better known for their skills with swords and they are suddenly guiding war tanks, but it's a fun challenge.

I'm surprised no bosses from Titans or Mind over Mutant showed up. Even as a fan of that "era" of crash (or, at least Titans specifically), the bosses are probably the weakest aspect of those games. Then again, I don't remember them being as bad as some of the ones on this list.

Couldn't agree you more about the final boss of N Tranced, I was 7 years old and I couldn't beat N Trophy, it took me 8 whole years for me to finally beat N Trophy, once I got a lot smarter that is

13:42 I did too as a kid, in fact I had so much difficulty doing so, and then felt accomplish beating him using that method, leading me to thinking he was a hard boss. And then hearing list saying he was easy, which got me to mention the method that I thought was the only way.

Ahoy! I recently found your channel and I just wanna say, I love your content so far. I've been binge watching a lot of your videos and they're great. Crash has always been one of my favorite game franchises since I was a kid playing the first one, yet until now, I've never really watched Crash content on KZfaq. I'm glad your vids were in my recommended feed.

Mostly agree with this list, but pronouncing the S in viscount made my grandson cry 😭 I don’t think the N. Tropies we’re meant to be the final fight. But I think they were meant to SEEM like the final fight. So we’d just go have fun in the next world before the ‘twist’ that led to the last word. It would have been great if not for the cut down fight and the fact that the ads showed literally every single world.

Uka-Uka might be an easy boss fight, but his theme in twinsanity is a total banger

Interresting to find my favourite of them all on this one. Komodo from Crash Bash is my favourite haha. Love the tank minigame as well

I made a couple predictions for this video, and some of them came true. Didn't expect N. Tropy to be number one though.

10: Sooo... Cortex is this game's Luigi? 9: At least the rest of the bosses had some memorable personalities even if Papu-Papu's is that he's clumsy. 8: Him turning into an ice golem not to mention the rest of his powers makes me wonder why he needed the Evolvoray in Crash of the Titans. Just as well, I can see how the Evil Twins were able to beat him and Aku-Aku. 7: I remember saying that they're kinda like the evil version of the Lutece twins from Bioshock Infinite. I mean, one's a genderbent version of the other and they have some really weird implications at play. 6: Feh. If they messed up implementing a monkey ball into a boss fight, I'm glad they didn't do the same with the submersible. Glad they didn't do R. Lee Ermey THAT dirty. 5: I'm just surprised Crash Bash had something akin to a boss fight in the first place... I also feel like Let's Play Curse is due to divided attention in some cases. Not that I mind someone interacting with their viewerbase inherently. 4: At the very least, this is the worst boss in the main series. And I'm not sure how things will go from here... 3: My guess is that Velo's robo-suit is permanently destroyed, but when has logic stopped cartoony video games? Speaking of which, the robo suit CAN be unlocked... in the GBA version. What a strange exclusivity. 2: The exact same boss fight applies to Spyro Orange. So we could have that boss on a potential worst Spyro boss list. 1: Well, speak of the drill sergeant because it should not be this tedious to get through what's basically a Wa-Wa clone!

Uka Uka’s fight in Titans is way worse. Dude never shuts up, his attacks are unfairly powerful and since the titans can’t jump, you have to sacrifice your titans when he rips off the spike’s special move

The Neo Cortex entry made me feel ashamed of how many times I had to retry that stupid fight...

Honestly feel like Dreams is the perfect title for you to cover considering its complete creative freedom not to mention its hidden gem status

Regarding the repetition of Velo’s boss race: I recently replayed CNK to 101% both teams, and I collected all the relics before Velo’s first boss race. By doing this, I got the true ending and 101% after each first race against Velo. I only had to race Velo once per team, instead of twice like the game’s structure and cutscenes imply.

In Uka Uka's defense, he did just wake up from his slumber and isn't at full power.

I have to admit that I can see why you either did me or did struggle on some of these bosses. I’ll be honest I never have played any of these crash bandicoot games except for one, crash bandicoot team racing nitro fueled, but I will admit that I did battle nitrous oxide and he gave me quite a bit of trouble, but I did manage to beat him. I have to say overall this list is really solid, and while I have not played some of these games at all, I can feel your pain for some of these fights, especially on that last one. I would struggle on that just as much as some fights in Kirby games, but I’m glad you pushed through and showed those bosses who is the real boss, no matter if it’s the best or worst. Keep up the good work my friend, I liked this video, and I’m sure your other videos are just as amazing as this one! I might also want to immediately say up front that the name of your channel might be one of the best names I think I have ever seen a KZfaq channel being called, and I have to admit I give you extra points for the creativity of the name, keep up the good work my friend!

My least favourites: #10 Komodo Bros. (Bash) #9 N. Tropy and Fem Tropy (It's About Time) #8 Tiny (Crash of the Titans) #7 Oxide (Bash) #6 N. Gin (Twinsanity) #5 Coco (Mind Over Mutant) #4 Crunch (Mind Over Mutant) #3 Cortex (Crash 2) #2 Spyro (Fusion) #1 N. Tropy (N-Tranced)

Nice list. I would have included N. Gin's fight from Twinsanity on here. For a character who is the subject of some of the series' best bosses -- even earlier in that same game -- the fight in the crow's nest is just painfully basic.

5:53 I agree. Despite Crash Twinsanity having some of the greatest boss battles in the series (the overall quality is definitely superior to Crash 1 or Crash 2), Uka Uka was underwhelming here. Then you face it in Crash of the Titans and it's an even worse boss fight. We have the Ultimate Mask of Evil or something and the best boss fight against him is in Crash on the Run. We're still waiting for something that can top the intense climax of Warped's final boss (which was Cortex btw; Uka Uka is more of an obstacle)

I'll be honest, seeing that video title made me quite anxious, but by the end I was overjoyed that you think that my favourite boss, Will Wumpacheeks from CTTR, is better than all of these.

Me playing it the first time: Rumble in the Roks shouldn't be too frustrated. Rocko: Yeah, except you forgot the part where I kick your butt!.

lmao i never beat n. tropy as a kid and i played n. tranced constantly for years. love that game but now i feel like the trouble with the final boss wasn’t just me being a dumb child

You can actually get a mask for dying too many times in the N.Tropy fight from N.tranced, but it takes a lot of lives, but the thing is the hidden death counter resets if you get a gameover in this game, so if you enter the fight with too few lives, there's no chance to trigger the effect. The one trick I used on this fight was getting 2 masks from any other level and then fighting, if you die during the fight, press start+select and you get your two masks back since the game resets your masks if you leave a level. But yeah, still bad game design and one of the worst fights ever

"Vis-count"........ MY BONES ITCH!! MY BRAIN TREMBLES!!

And thus I remain the only person fond of the Crash 2 final boss. ^^;

Crash 2 Cortex: You haven’t seen the last of me, Crash Bandicoot! Caddicarus: Oh I bloody hope so, because I want a better fight next time. (GASP) Caddicarus: Oh yeah, I got him good there.

Always down for these crash bandicoot vids.

Interesting list ! Mostly agree with the choices, with my own opinions below (should you wish to read them) : # 9 - Koala Kong could have benefited in a battle arena like N. Tropy where you dodge projectiles then make your way across platforms to hit him, perhaps using the rotating platforms from the previous stages of Crash 1. In it's current form, it is true that it's mostly just waiting in one spot, and it's annoying to start over and over again if you die once. # 8 - Uka could have benefited with a brief invincibility "Rage" period where he unleashes a powerful barrage of attacks while the switches are temporarily down to give the fight a bit more length to it. # 7 - N.Tropy's fight is way too short and easy, feels like a first phase to a second ultimate phase, I wish there was a second phase where Crash and his friends work together to perhaps take down a fused N.Tropy who uses the masks (or maybe even the Elemental Masks from Crash WoC) as an epic conclusion. # 6 - I could imagine Tiny replacing Crunch as this boss, replacing the whole ball gimmick with a platforming boss fight as Rokko destroys the platforms, would be like Crash 2's fight, and it would probably be a much better usage of older crash bosses. # 4 - I wonder why Cortex didn't attack Crash with his spaceship or some kind of battle-mech, heck, he doesn't even attack back at you. I wouldn't call this a boss fight, and more of a glorified cutscene. # 1 - They should have cut this fight down to 3 hitpoints, giving him a new attack for each phase. That would have made the fight much more shorter and varied, eg. Fireball, Blue Energy Wave, Green Homing shots etc. They could have also varied the platforming on different hazards such as the lava pits in the prehistoric ages etc.

Perhaps for a Koala Kong comeback fight it can be modeled after pro wrestling. Maybe trick him into hitting himself with something at ringside that he gets.

I'm not much of a crash fan nor have I played a single game from the bandicoot but I always get a kick out of people talking about him including you benjamage

This feels like a classic maverickhunterzero75 video and I do love it quite a bit

The n tropy boss form n tranced made me break my GBA as a kid

It would of been interesting if you had N Tropy be the regular final boss while making it so for the first time having it so you need to collect the equivalent of the every gem in the regular stage which would be a count in the level of regular and N verted stages (linked to each level) and when you beat N Tropy, the events that lead to Cortex becoming the final boss like he does in Crash 4. It could make it so the true ending is behind gems but the true true ending is behind 100% and would of made getting gems more worth it that just getting costumes.

I'll guess that cortex from crash 2 is number 1

Aw, man! I wish I could see this live, but I'll be in bed when it goes up... But I won't be surprised if the final boss of Crash 2 is number 1. That boss is just TERRIBLE!!!! If you can call it a f*cking boss! Beyond that, the N. Tropy fight from It's About Time was such a letdown... All the build-up for two hits that feel more like platforming?! Did Toys for Bob ironically run out time during development? There should be no excuse for this boss being so lackluster!

I honestly though the N Trophies were the final boss and caught off guard the game is still going.

Choosing Koala Kong instead of Papu Papu as one of the worst fights? Interesting. I understand your point, but I would have done the opposite (although, to be honest, Koala Kong wasn't tough or remarkable either)

5:06 I understand that Uka Uka goes down pathetically in twinsanity, but let me be real, I battled against Uka Uka twice already in Crash on the run, and LOST ON THE FIRST TRY TWICE…. Which to this day really angers me since his attacks were difficult for me to predict, the first attempt I didn’t think know the lasers would kill you even if you have Aku Aku, and then the second attempt I got hit by his unexpected fireballs, AND lost on the very last health of his boss battle, but restarted it just to beat him for real.

The first boss from this franchise I immediately hated was Ripper Roo from Crash 1.

I totally agree with you about the N. Tropy boss from Crash 4. It could’ve been so much more! I personally would’ve loved if they did something where you need to force them to aim their laser cannon at machine setting up force fields during the asteroid segments with the masks so that you can get closer towards the Rift Generator, that would’ve been amazing!!

Honestly, as much as I think crash 4 final boss is objectively pretty good, i can't bring myself to like it. The reason for me isn't because the boss is boring (which isn't), or has a mindless pattern to learn and dodge, but my problem is the fact that cortex has become another generic "A plataforming game final boss that is a giant mech" like dr willy or dr eggman. Don't get me wrong, i really like a majority of the fights against these two (or other evil scientists), but for me, cortex just going all out and trying to beat him in a one-on-one fight was MUCH cooler than any giant mech ever was. Granted he would actually bring guns and other gadgets, like granades, to his fights, but still felt like a actual fight against him, instead of hiding behind a giant robot and let it do his job like so many other villains like to do. I wouldn't have much of a problem with this if wasn't for two reasons, the fact the Ngin already had the role of the giant mech boss fight (we REALLY didn't need 3 giant robots boss fights in the same game) and even the games post ND got that right, like how twinsanity's first fight against him is so fun, or even mind of mutant final boss were he just decides do beat crash with his own hands (literally). I always thought it would be much cooler if cortex decided to use his hoverboard and the masks in the fight, like use kapuna-wa time slow ability and tried to make his mines explode way faster, making it harder for the player to dodge, and then he would get caught in one of these explosions, getting dizzy for a few seconds giving the player a opportunity to hit him. But hey, at least still is a good boss, just not a good CORTEX fight, and it is way better than whatever that n tropy fight was.

Hey Benjamin, can you please re-do your Top 10 best/worst final fantasy bosses list? I've been waiting to see how your opinion has changed after all these years especially since so many new games came out to shake up the list compared to the OG.

12:17 - 12:20 Benjamage: Like I said. The Komodo Brothers could really use a redemption Me: *singsong voice* Oh Mavy~ Benjamage: What? Me: *singsong voice* You forgot something~ Benjamage: Uh.....what did I forget? Me: This!! *shows the You Fail meme that he made* Benjamage: Oh. Right....I forgot about that.

i choose to think that twinsanity uka uka is so easy because he's 1. working with what he's got in the immediate moment, and 2. he JUST came out of that ice block, he's probably not gonna be able to fight his best like that

Sad that Black Mage Benjamin had to end on a rather sad note with Chocobo GP... Could have used one last positive review video under the Black Mage name, but oh, well... At least Benjamage has a nice ring to it...

BenjaMage: *Does a No Input Run* Luigi Doing Absolutely Nothing: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!!! *Both stand there doing nothing as time & space distorts & collapses around them*

neat. he changed his name again. and i thought i was self conscious. great video though.

The coretex fight from mind over mutant kinda is familiar wait a usually smart villian ejecting himself with a formula that makes him buff to make a bad final boss. Oh god it titan joker all over again

I had the same thoughts regarding the N. Tropy fight in Crash 4. It really seemed like they were hyping it up to be a big team effort where you're swapping between the different characters in each phase, but that doesn't happen.

Another awful fight from Crash N.Tranced, the Crunch fight. You can literally beat it without doing anything.

[SPOILERS] I'm glad I wasn't the only one disappointed with the fight against N tropy's in Crash 4. I wish they fully incorporated the fight with all the masks and characters to trick the player into thinking that this was the true final boss of the game and then hit us with the Cortex fight or at least add the full fight in as an update or dlc. But I guess activision was too quick to have this game out the door to bring in the cash.

nice list i think i had a minor ptsd attack from rembering the Empeor Velo Boss race i rember being stuck SO DAMN FREAKING HARD on that boss for HOURS the first time i got to him i think in a future 100% or is it 200% run i found it easier but not by much i think i was BEGGING i get beakers from the item boxes to negate the missles which dose not always work out

In the segment with velo another thing he has in his favor is his carts design which looks like something out of star wars

I personally think Uka Uka should have been the true final boss of a traditional Crash game (after collecting all the gems and refighting Cortex)

I know you probably won't see this but velo oxide pinstripe geary and norm are all bosses that shoot moving projectiles in crash racing games

One redeeming quality I will give to the N. Tranced Tropy fight is I think the music is really good. I like it better than the Warped version.

For Velo i don't find it that difficult as the shortcut skips a good amount of the track. Btw, i'm surprised you didn't include the Uka-Uka boss fight in titans as it is brutally hard as it constantly spams enemies on you

Nice video Ben! :D

Makes me think that the Tropy battle would be something on Evil twins theme

I died a little inside every time you pronounced Viscount.

You should do a video on your top 10 favourite pieces or Crash music - that'd be a fun one

I think like a lot of games RE2 remake comes to mind, Crash gameplay just doesn’t really lend itself well to boss fights

Already know that Crash 2's Neo Cortex fights either number 1 or in the top 3. Edit: Damn, I was close, but still pretty off...

Thats a great list, haven't seen you do one in over three months, so I'll go over my though on each of the bosses that are talked about in the list. WARNING: This list will be a spoiler the bosses that are on this video so don't read it if you don't want to be soiled. 10: Crash Boom Bang has bosses?? Hu, I didn't think about that until now, but yeah this looks like that Sonic Spinball boss from Sonic CD. 9: I remember many years ago asking as to why you dislike this boss since your mention about him in your original Top Ten Favorite Crash Bandicoot bosses, but after watching it I can see why, music's great tho. 8: Yeah not gonna lie, this boss for Uka-Uka looks pathetic, and after thinking about it, I just relized somthing....what is it with video games that are labbed in odds having underwhelming bosses that are also (well sometimes) labbed in odds (such as Super Paper Mario, Pokémon Black & White and Kirby and the Forgotten Land)??? 7: Now that you mentioned it, I kind of wish that they put in more effort in the N. Tropys (as in both the male and female N. Tropy) fight and even made them the final boss, rather then have them rehash Cortex as the final boss again (Tho that's my opinion). 6: Another hate on the first boss fight against Crunch in Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex? I may have never played that game, but I seen the fight a few times and it looks interesting. 5: Firstly, what you said from 10:22 to 10:34, I always though you like the battle against the Kamado Brothers in Crash 2 from your Top Ten Favorite Crash Bandicoot Bosses, and secondly, thats the third time you mention their battle in Crash Bash, they must be that bad. 4: Wow, not number 1? But yeah, the final boss against Cortex in Crash Bandicoot 2 is indeed a letdown when in comparison to the previous game, and it was a REAL shame that they didn't do anything new for the remake. 3: So basically, the final boss for Crash Nitro Kart is a rehash of Crash Team Racing but with two enemies adding the boss and he spams the moves more hacked then a SNK Boss spamming projectiles...in a racing game.........yikes...... 2: So the first boss in Crash: Purple is the big epic battle between Spyro and Crash throwing Cocktail Bombs at each other.......it sounds neat....but even Lemmy in New Super Mario Bros Wii U (who is also the first boss) did the whole bomb thing right. 1: Wow, one mess up and your force to start the WHOLE fight again, and the final phase has RAMDOMIZED attacks???? Yeah thats bad game design, but seeing this list It makes me wonder, is that your new least favorite Crash Bandicoot boss in your Top Ten Least Favorite Bosses? Just cerious. But yeah above all eles, great list there BenjaMage, can't wait to see what you have in store next. ;)

Last night, I actually beat Crash 3. The N-Sane version and not 106% with all gems, but it was still epic! Definitely one of the hardest games I’ve ever beaten, even with all the powers.

Calling it now, the number one entry will be something from crash boom bang or one of the titan games!

I feel like the N. Tropy fight would be better if the second phase was an auto scroller where you have to chase after N. Tropy while platforming and avoiding his attacks. Afterwards you could have the final phase take place on a cliff and play out sort of like the Koala Kong fight with N. Tropy firing his attacks from the background, along with the occasional coconut which you have to spin back at him. It's not much better I guess but it would at least be more varied, also I just think Koala Kong's fight would work a bit better.

Great video btw, Not sure if you've done it but I think you should do a video on the old Donkey Kong Country games

Welp, you've already made a video based on the crash bosses you love the MOST, so why not make a video based on the crash bosses you hate the WORST

I had no idea about the exploit with the Komodo Brothers in Crash Bash. I think what makes N. Tropy in N Tranced worse is that he's not just the final boss, he's the game's TRUE final boss.

I find myself just not liking how they did N Tropy in It's About Time. It reminds me of those 2000s Sonic games where they kept jobbing Eggman to some 'super sewious and scawy' cliche villain that was pretty much all just smoke and mirrors in the end (Black Doom and Mephiles had absolutely stupid plans but hey, they're dark and sinister so the 'cool' villains). The dark backstory with Tawna just made me cringe, it was like a bad fanfic with no sense of irony. It felt fitting that Cortex just hijacked the whole thing in the end. N Tranced made Tropy the villain too, but he had that title the whole game (and even while the final boss was cheap and repetitive, it was at least DIFFICULT). Also the build up is surprisingly better, since it INTENTIONALLY treats Tropy as a pretentious fool. His plan starts off good, starts to fall apart like in Warped, he throws a tantrum then panics and tries to escape. This makes him putting up a resilient fight in the end more impressive, like he's decided not to blow his chance at replacing Cortex. Tropy generally feels like that sort that can put up a suave act for a while, but starts to crack and make mistakes when he's not in the winner's seat anymore. Him going down early in It's About Time makes sense in that regard, but they took out the big weakspot to explain WHY. He's genuinely meant to be 'the competent villain' in that one. They did the same with Coco and Tawna. They originally felt like characters who only THOUGHT they were the sensible and flawless ones but were deep down just as silly and flawed as Crash and Cortex, while here they're supposed to outrank them. What fun is a 'non-funny' Crash character.

Gonna have to disagree with Cortex in Crash 2 being less than 2 or 1. Cortex in Crash 2 is not even really a fight, just a chase with nothing to kill you except not getting him in time and of course the Spyro battle is just pathetic. Yeah the N-Tranced battle for Tropy is tedious but I still think its at least a fight, just a long and boring one

I figured it'd either be Crash 2 Cortex, Twin Tropy battle, or N-Tranced Tropy at #1. Out of all the bosses I don't like, that's the number 1 worst boss in my book as well. What's worse is you have to unlock his battle by 100%-ing the game. Collecting all the colored gem shards was BS. Worst instance of story padding on Crash History. The more I watch Crash-related lists, the more I realize how much I actually like the boss roster. Mind you, they're far from perfect but most have such a sense of charm to them I can constantly overlook their shortcomings to a fault admittedly. But I do have some stinkers... Evil Coco (N-Traced) This fight more has mostly to do with my own poor eyesight. I have a atrocious depth perception problems and will of find myself getting strafed by her projectiles more often than I'd like to admit. Komodo Joe (Nitro Fueled) I really don't like how Beenox handled the controls for the remake. Breaking and powersliding have been nerfed so much, holding momentum is a huge chore now. I was an unsung CTR king back in the day, however nowadays I lose momentum like like an old Buick. Joe himself is still a decent challenge but the overcorrection on the controls boils my blood. And Dragon Mines used to be a favorite racecourse of mine on the original CTR Oxide Ride (Crash Bash) Oxide's appearance and boss fight in Crash Bash is one of my favorite boss fights in the franchise. On Single Player any ways. When I played it on 2 Player my siblings _literally_ got in the way. I don't understand why we had to share the same track for the Ballistix game, but maybe that's the salt talking. Seriously though, co-op Adventure mode was aggravating because the difficulty became a total crapshoot with another player. Nina (Crash of the Titans) I'm kinda hesitant to even put a Crash of the Titans boss in this list because you don't really fight the bosses directly, you really just cause massive AoE destruction around the boss arena by either directly controlling them or fighting a huge mob of fodder and mutants. And it was super annoying because in the last arena you had to destroy the gears in Nina's giant airship or whatever. The issue is the gears around the final areas blend in so well I wasted a good 10 minutes wandering aimlessly unsure of what I'm doing and firing the spider mutant's laser indiscriminately in all directions until the final cutscene triggered it felt like. lol

16:46 actually you can beat him 2 times to unlock velo because after you beat each worlds bosses you can get the other items then do the gem cups and the final relic

"But not once did a pinball fall into my hole" that's what she said. Or what they said